Gestern Taksim, Heute Neukölln

Altı yıl önce Gezi Direnişi'ne katılmış olan pek çok kişi artık Türkiye'de yaşamıyor. Bu insanların bir kısmı bugün Almanya'da, çoğunlukla da Berlin'de yaşıyor. taz.gazete, Gezi'nin altıncı yılında Berlin'de yaşayan ve Gezi'ye katılmış olan insanlarla konuştu. Vor sechs Jahren entwickelte sich aus einem Protest für den Erhalt des Gezi-Parks in Istanbul ein landesweiter Aufstand gegen die … Continue reading Gestern Taksim, Heute Neukölln

Germany: New Generation Diaspora

  One of the things that those who manage to go from Turkey hear most is the sentence “You’ve left and saved yourself, good for you.” Do the departers truly live in a euphoria of victory with a fundamental sense of salvation? The fact that the common ground of the individuals we interviewed eventually came … Continue reading Germany: New Generation Diaspora

HARPER’S Magazine: What the Camera Saw: Investigating a Turkish protester’s death

Contributed to that report as a fixer. "A few months earlier, a young protester named Abdullah Cömert had died on Gündüz Street after allegedly being struck by a tear-gas canister — the second Gezi fatality nationwide. Shortly after midnight, on September 10, in the faint red glow recorded by the camera, a twenty-two-year-old named Ahmet Atakan became … Continue reading HARPER’S Magazine: What the Camera Saw: Investigating a Turkish protester’s death